Stevie on the Move

Fenghuang

China, China! You crazy country!

When traveling in China, first I was overwhelmed by the impressions that flew into my head. My friend Ben and I cycled his tandem bike into Kashgar, the first big city after the border, and the whole city was screaming at us. Everything went BAHHHHH! Bright lights and colourful signs are illuminating every building and […]

Hitchhiking the Pamir Highway

A race on the second highest highway

My travel mate Ben and I had an interesting side trip to Afghanistan which took us longer than expected. When we made it back to Tajikistan I had only five days left on my Tajik visa. The first day we spent with getting back to Khorog where we left Cindy, Bens Tandem bike at a […]

Backpackers in Afghanistan

How not to travel in Afghanistan

What the fuck? What a trip! Since Afghanistan was the last Persian country I didn’t visit so far I wanted to go there all the time. Anyway I didn’t expect my short journey to this place to be so exciting. When I applied for the Tajik visa in Bishkek I applied for a double entry […]

Fan Mountains Tajikistan

Amazing Hospitality in Tajikistan

What should I say about Tajikistan? Tajikistan is one of the countries with the most hospitable people I ever met. You can knock on any door and ask “Chai? Plov?” and they will be like “Sure, come in. Drink my tea, eat my plov and sleep in my house.”. And then they will never just […]

Me at the Registon Samarkand

Uzbekistan – Sunny, magic land!

Uzbekistan has all what it promises, glamorous palaces and mosques, friendly and hospitable people and a lack of water because it all goes into their cotton fields. Although you have to stay at least every third night in a hotel and get a registration slip from them, it’s fine if you have just a few […]

Austria vs Kyrgyzstan

Austria vs Kyrgyzstan

So I was so lucky and got invited to participate in the first World Nomad Games at Lake Issyk Kul in Chalpon Ata. I got paid for the transport and a nice hotel with all meals for the whole week. They said even Boris Jelzin stayed in that hotel once. Too bad he was no […]

Kyrgyz yurt

Wild wild Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan is the Wild Wild West of Central Asia. Infants are put in the saddle of a donkey and kids grow up wrecking horses down the hills. The Kyrgyz people have lots of traditional and very barbaric horse games and if not fighting on horses they will test their strength in wrestling. The food is […]

Mountain biking Assy Plateau

On the mountain bike through the Tian Shan Mountains

First I have to say that Google Keep is no good to Keep data on your Android device. Because if you accidentally overwrite your data, it’s all lost. So it should rather be called Google Lose. I changed now to Evernote. Anyway, I spent my last week in Kazakhstan in the Tian Shan Mountains on […]

hitchhiking a train

Adventurous Kazakhstan

When I came to Kazakhstan and spent one day in the Kazakh mountains I felt like in Kazakhstan every day can be full of adventures. And it really is so! My first few days in Kazakhstan I had a great time in Almaty. Almaty was formerly known as Alma-Ata, grandfather of apples because their used […]

Cave monestary Vardzia

Georgia – definitely a weird country!

Georgia is the most religious christian country and also the country with the most alcohol consumption I ever travelled. Besides that Georgia has cows everywhere that prefer to rather stand on the middle of the road than on fresh green. So when taking a mashrutka the driver will go slalom through the cows and sometimes […]

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